thanks to
jake for taking the time to email us about a recent interview he did
with larry crane about new moon on glorious
noise! the article is a very insightful interview and includes some
great detail about where the songs from new moon came from and how the
record came together. aside from being a friend of elliott's, larry
crane also mixed new moon, supervised the mastering, helped with the
sequencing, and wrote part of the liner notes. larry is the archivist
for elliott's estate as well. if you would like to check out the article
at glorious noise, please go here: glono
interview: larry crane, archivist of elliott smith's estate. larry
was also kind enough to take some time and post in a thread on sweet
addy about the article. if you would like to check it out, please click
here: sweet
addy.

thank you
to john for emailing us too about his recent preview of new moon on
his blog at uncut. his preview is the first press (that i've seen) to
hear and talk about the record so far, so there might be promos of new
moon starting to go out for review :) john was also one of the first
uk journalists to interview elliott (for nme) and wrote plenty about
him through the years. if you are interested in getting john's thoughts
about the record, please go to his blog here: elliott
smith's new moon

finally,
thanks to paul t for creating a new site dedicated to providing free
access to elliott smith bootlegs in one location, elliottsmithbootlegs.net.
the site provides a place for audio and video bootlegs and it has a
list of bootlegs that need to be found. elliottsmithbootlegs.net also
brings together shows that come from archive.org
and trashtreasury.com. paul
is looking for more shows to add. if you can help him, please contact
him through his site or if you just want to check out the site itself,
please go to: elliottsmithbootlegs.net.
thanks paul for taking the time to start another great elliott smith
site :) (3.10.07)

more
about autumn de wilde's book, elliott smith :)

thank you
so much to steve at chronicle
books for taking the time to send us an email about autumn de wilde's
upcoming book, 'elliott
smith.' steve is editing the book and saw we had a little news item
about the book in our last update and wanted to let us know what else
to expect in the book, which is an awesome surprise to read because
not only does it have autumn's beautiful pictures and thoughts but the
book will include images of elliott's handwritten lyrics and ephemera,
conversations with elliott's loved ones and musicians he inspired and
a 5 song cd with live tracks elliott did at largo!
:) even better, a portion of the proceeds will go to the sims
foundation in austin and outside
in in portland. yay! amazon has a pre-order listing for autumn's
book online if you are interested in getting it (please remember it
is slated to be released in oct./nov.). it is also on sale for $19.77
in the united states if you pre-order the book! (please check your local
amazon site for more information if you live outside of the u.s.). here
is a link to the book if you would like to pre-order it: amazon.com:
'elliott smith' by autumn de wilde.

well here
is steve's wonderful and detailed email. thanks again to steve for sharing
so much!

"hey
i saw the notice about the elliott smith book autumn is doing and wanted
to give you some more info on it (i'm the editor working with her on
the book). it's indeed called ELLIOTT SMITH. it's a collection of photographs
that autumn took over the years of knowing elliott, both as friends
and having worked with him for various photo shoots, as well as on the
cover and album packaging and other stuff etc. for figure 8 and on the
video they did together for "son of sam." it will also include
some ephemera and handwritten lyrics, and conversations with some of
elliott's friends, family, and musicians he inspired. those include:

it also
includes a previously unreleased 5-song cd of elliott playing live,
solo acoustic at largo in l.a. the tracklisting for the cd is 1. between
the bars, 2. angelesl, 3. clementine, 4. clouds (a quasi cover), 5.
all my rowdy friends have settled down (a hank williams jr. cover)

the live
recording’s really good, by mark flanagan at largo, the crowd
is totally hushed during the songs, and elliott has fun with the hank
jr. cover. it’s a hardcover, 8 x 10-1/2 vertical, 224 pages, $29.95,
and it will be out in october/november 2007. a portion of the proceeds
will go to the sims foundation
in austin and outside in
up in portland. autumn's almost done with the cover and i'd be glad
to send it along when it's ready! all
best wishes, steve"

steve also
responded to my email thanking him and he also included this great and
nice little bit: 'the book went originally from autumn writing a small
amount of text, mostly a photo book, to her then wanting to have many
voices in the book, in the form of conversations, so it went from what
was going to be 1,500 words to 50,000 words(!)' thanks to everyone who
orders the book! (3.6.07)